Wilshire

Are you in the area and looking to meet up early before Drupal Camp LA?

Some of us are heading to Classic Q to enjoy some pre-camp libations and billiards action.

Come talk Drupal, network, find out which sessions you should attend and more!

Starts TODAY 6:30pm @ The Classic Q
4251 MacArthur Blvd, Newport Beach, CA 92660
(949) 261-9458
http://www.theclassicq.com/

See you all there!

Join us Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 at the Santa Monica Public Library (main branch). Every month we have experts guide our local community, it's always a spectacular lineup of topics and presentations centered around Drupal. Plus we help users answer questions, and resolve issues with solutions surrounding planning, supporting, and developing with Drupal.

Mark your calendars for the second Tuesday of each month as "LA DRUPAL DAY"!

Room1: 7pm-9pm (sharp!) - doors open at 6p

• Main presentation: Drupalcamp LA case study
• Lightning Talks: (5min ea) Open Floor. Come share something cool, new, and Drupalie! (post a comment to lock in your spot now)
• The first to arrive will receive a free copy of the Drupal specific magazine: Drupal Watchdog -- normally $12/issue!
• Plus, Job announcements, Networking, Wi-fi and raffle prizes, including various Drupal books, DVD's, and subscriptions!

Join us Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 at the Santa Monica Public Library (main branch). Every month we have experts guide our local community, it's always a spectacular lineup of topics and presentations centered around Drupal. Plus we help users answer questions, and resolve issues with solutions surrounding planning, supporting, and developing with Drupal.

Mark your calendars for the second Tuesday of each month as "LA DRUPAL DAY"!

Room1: 7pm-9pm (sharp!) - doors open at 6p

• Main presentation: TBD
• Shop talk: TBD
• Lightning Talks: (5min ea) Open Floor. Come share something cool, new, and Drupalie! (post a comment to lock in your spot now)
• The first to arrive will receive a free copy of the Drupal specific magazine: Drupal Watchdog -- normally $12/issue!
• Plus, Job announcements, Networking, Wi-fi and raffle prizes, including various Drupal books, DVD's, and subscriptions!

We'll be launching the Drupal Design Camp LA site this week and I'm inviting all of you to my place for a final sprint. Top Notch Themes is done with the theme for the site and all we need in order to finish testing is for us to have some content up on the site.

Can anyone think of other things they want on the site, like a #ddcla feed or member discussion forums? This sprint is the last chance for brainstorming and implementing new functionality.

I've also posted a few placeholder pages on the dev site that we can fill in during the sprint:

• About DDCLA (what to expect at the conference)
• Where to stay (hotels near the venue that have shuttles from LAX)
• Where to eat (restaurants and cafes near the venue)
• Our Sponsors (sponsor pages with logos)

Meanwhile, it turns out that the http://designfordrupal.com domain was once used for sending spam and I'm moving everything over to http://www.ddcla.org instead. The Git repo will stay in the same place, though, and I'll make sure *.designfordrupal.com redirects to the right place, so this will be a seamless switch.

Drupal Design Camp LA is barely 60 days away and we're having a website sprint on Saturday, December 11th. It will be between 10am-4pm. We might go past 4pm if we're up for it, but please don't show up before 10am.

The plan for the day is to use the Conference Organizing Distribution to set up the site and then write content (venue information, hotel locations, etc.) and add any extra modules that make the cut. We'll also start talking about the volunteer task list for the camp.

Signups are disabled for this event. We're just going to show up, roll up our sleeves and have fun!

Location

We're meeting between 10am-4pm at 4402 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019, which is right on the corner of Pico Blvd. at Windsor Blvd. The nearest major intersection is Pico Blvd. and La Brea Blvd.

Here's a photo from Google Street View that shows the front door. Windsor Blvd. has free on-street parking and Pico Blvd. has metered parking. Out of respect for our neighbors, please do not park on Victoria Park Dr.

This location is on the edge of Wilshire in Los Angeles, but it's also called Mid City and is right next to Victoria Park. Sheesh. If you have trouble finding the place, here's a photo from Google Street View. You can also call LA Drupal's hotline at 855-LADRUPAL (855-523-7872).

Lunch

Lunch will be potluck-style, so please bring enough food and drinks for yourself + one. We have a grill, a fantastic kitchen and a huge dining room table. BYOB if you'd like. Please post a comment below to let others know what you're bringing.

I'm very pleased to announce our first Introduction to Drupal Course!

This one-day, hands-on course is targeted toward project managers who will need to work with Drupal, or web developers who have not yet made the transition from Dreamweaver (or equivalent software) to a web content management system, and need a gentle introduction.

Introduction to Drupal Course
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, June 20, 2009 9am - 5pm PDT
$299 until May 22, $349 after May 22, 2009

So I found this at the local scrum club website and I thought it might be a fun thing to see if we could put together a team from the LADrupal group to work together to compete in this site building contest (much like the discussed full code sprint event). This is a local event and it will benefit a local student organization. Below are the details:

The Code Show is a one day event designed to bring out the best teams in technology and pit them against each other in a competitive environment.